Clarsach glacier
| Clarsach glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 57 ′ S , 70 ° 15 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Haydn Inlet , Bellingshausen Lake | |
The Clarsach Glacier is a glacier in the northern part of Alexander I Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows south between the Prague Spur and the Finlandia Foothills to Haydn Inlet .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). These were used by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 for mapping. Further mapping was carried out using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy from 1966 to 1967 as well as Landsat images from January 1974. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier descriptively in 1977, as it looks like a Clarsach , a Celtic harp, when it is supervised .
Web links
- Clarsach Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Clarsach Glacier on geographic.org (English)